The document discusses biomarkers for several diseases. A biomarker is defined as an objectively measured indicator of biological or pathogenic processes. An ideal biomarker for diagnosis should have high sensitivity and specificity for a disease. Biomarkers can be used for screening, diagnosis, monitoring disease progression, and predicting outcomes or treatment responses. Examples of biomarkers discussed include procalcitonin for sepsis, rapid diagnostic tests detecting malaria antigens, ADA for tuberculosis pleural effusion, and CSF tau and amyloid beta for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Validation of biomarkers includes assessing accuracy, precision, limits of detection, and specificity.
2. Introduction
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Definition:
The US FDA (2001)defines a biomarker as a
characteristic i.e. objectively measured &
evaluated as an indicator of normal biologic,
pathogenic or pharmacologic responses to
therapeutic intervention.
3. WHO (2010)
Biomarkers includes-
Almost any measurement reflecting an
interaction between a biological system and
a potential hazard, which may be chemical,
physical, or biological; The measured
response may be functional and
physiological, biochemical at the cellular
level or a molecular interaction.
Ex : Pulse and blood pressure through basic chemistries
to more complex laboratory tests of blood and other
tissues.
7. Biomarker & Diagnosis
Ideal Marker for diagnosis
Should have great sensitivity (>0.9), specificity
(>0.9), and accuracy in reflecting total disease
burden.
A tumor marker should also be prognostic of
outcome and treatment.
Samples for biomarker detection
Blood, urine, or other body fluids samples
Tissue samples.
8. Biomarker for Screening
The marker must be highly specific, minimize
false positive and negative
The marker must be able to clearly reflect the
different stages of the disease (early)
The marker must be easily detected without
complicated medical procedures.
The disease markers released to serum and urine
are good targets for application of early
screening.
The method for screening should be cost
effective.
9. Biomarker
Detection of biomarker diagnosis
Self properties, e.g enzymatic activities,
Antibodies, IHC, ELISA.
Detection of biomarker
Quantitative a link between quantity of the
marker and disease
Qualitative a link between exist of a marker and
disease.
10. Quantitative Approaches
Stable Isotope Labeling methods
adds heavy isotopes to one sample so
chemically identical compounds are mass
shifted
added to the peptides/proteins using reactive
groups
added to the proteins in vivo using heavy
amino acids
can be multiplexed
Label free methods
extracted ion chromatograms
spectral counting
11. Validation of Biomaker
Accuracy (agreement with a reference)
Precision (repeatability, reproducibility)
Limit of Detection (sensitivity)
Interference, Cross-reactivity (specificity)
Sample preparation / conditions
Performance around the cut-off
Potential for carryover, cross-hybridization.
12. Biomarker Uses
Diagnosis, in symptomatic patients
Early detection (screening), enabling intervention at an
earlier and potentially more curable stage than under usual
clinical diagnostic conditions
Monitoring of disease response during therapy, with
potential for adjusting level of intervention (e.g. dose) on a
dynamic and personal basis
Risk assessment, leading to preventive interventions for
those at sufficient risk
Prognosis, allowing for more (less) aggressive therapy for
patients with worse (better) prognosis
Prediction. E.g., predicts safety, efficacy (PK/PD) of a
specific therapy, thereby providing guidance in selecting it
for patients or tailoring its dose.
Last three are attempts to predict the future.
13. Advantages Disadvantages
Objective assessment Timing is critical
Precision of measurement Expensive (cost for analysis)
Reliable; validity can be established Storage (longevity of samples)
Less biased than questionnaires Laboratory errors
Disease mechanisms often studied Normal range difficult to establish
Homogeneity of risk or disease Ethical responsibility
Biomarker
15. Ideal biomarker for sepsis
Sensitive and specific for bacterial infection .
Single reliable cut-off value.
Unaffected by acute illness or chronic disease.
Level correlates with severity and mortality.
Short half-life.
Inexpensive and timely result (<1hr).
Ex . Procalcitonin ,CRP,aptt,TNF, IL
16. The potential role of biomarkers for diagnosis
remains undefined.
Recomendation
Use of low procalcitonin levels or similar
biomarkers to assist the clinician in the
discontinuation of empiric antibiotics in patients
who initially appeared septic, but have no
subsequent evidence of infection (grade 2C).
International Guidelines for Management of
Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2013
18. Malaria diagnosis
serological biomarker
Rapid detection tests (RDTs) - immunochromatography
assay.
Plasmodial lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH).
Histidine-rich protein II (HRP II).
Published sensitivities of RDTs for P. falciparum range
from comparable to those of good field microscopy (>
90% at 100500 parasites/亮l of blood) to very poor (40
50%) for some widely used products.
Priyamvada Jain et al; Potential Biomarkers and Their Applications for Rapid and Reliable Detection of Malaria.
852645, 2014, 1-20.
The use of rapid diagnostic tests. Geneva, Roll Back Malaria, WHO Regional Office for the
Western Pacific and UNDP/World Bank/WHO/UNICEF Special Programme for Research
19. WHO maintains a list of RDT manufacturers with
ISO 13485:2003 certification.
Advantages
Rapid diagnosis.
Fewer requirement of trained and skilled
personal.
Disadvantages
Unpredictable sensitivity.
Inability to differentiate between new infection
and recently treated infection as few antibodies
(HRP2) persist for 2 to 3 weeks.
22. TB pleural effusion (ADA)
Diagnosis of TB pleural effusion is a challenging task.
None of the diagnostic modalities available till date
are able to
diagnose TB pleural effusion as
So ADA is being used as a biomarker in diagnosing TB
pleural
effusion .
It is a quantitative biomarker produced from T
Lymphocytes .
26. LAM
Detection of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis cell
wall antigen lipoarabinomannan (LAM) in urine
permits diagnoses of tuberculosis (TB).
This can be achieved at the point-of-care within
just 30 minutes using the Determine TB-LAM,
which is a commercially available, lateral-flow
urine strip test assay.
Currently this test is validated in africa in HIV
positive patients .
Sensitivity and specificity are low in compared to
the Xpert MTB/RIF assay.
27. Advantages
simplicity of use,
lack of instrumentation,
speed of use with results available after 25
minutes
Low cost (initially marketed at $3.50 per test)
Implemented at the point-of-care.
This is currently used in patients enrolled for
ART treatment as a rapid test to rule out
dissemenated TB.
28. CSF (Cerebrospinal fluid) Total tau
T-tau increase (sensitivity- 95% & specificity- 84%).
CSF Phosphorylated tau
P-tau - increase (sensitivity- 95% & specificity- 83%).
CSF A硫
A硫42 decrease (sensitivity- 95% & specificity- 82%).
Magnetic resonance imaging MRI (functional scan using
FDG 18 Glucose ) atrophy of Hippocampus (sensitivity
88% & specificity 91%).
SPECT scanning (63% sensitivity and an 87%
specificity).
K. Blennow et al. Fluid Biomarkers in Alzheimer Disease, Cold Spring Harb Perspect Med, Apr
2012;2:006221.
J Cummings et al. Biomarker-Driven Therapeutic Management of Alzheimers Disease: Establishing the
29. CSF Amyloid 硫 and tau.
Neuromelanin antibodies.
PET biomarkers include [18F]-DOPA for estimating
dopaminergic neurotransmission.
Reduced brain regional N-acetyl-aspartate using
magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
留-Synculein index & Charnoly body.
Editor's Notes
The utility of procalcitonin levels or other biomarkers (such as CRP) to discriminate the acute inflammatory pattern of sepsis from other causes of generalized inflammation (eg, postoperative, other forms of shock) has not been demonstrated